NGC 1566 "Deprocessed"

[sjastro]

A more natural rendition of this difficult Seyfert galaxy.

http://users.westconnect.com.au/~sja...gc1566nnc.html

Clear skies

Steven

[Garyh]

What can I say Steven, just beautiful!

[rogerg (Roger)]

Quite a nice image Steven

[Matty P (Matt)]

Amazing image Steven!

It is very cool to see the dust lanes extending out into space and a couple of faint galaxies in the background.

Great work.

[Ric]

A beauty Steven, very nicely done and the background galaxies set it off wonderfully.

Cheers

[Alchemy (Clive)]

swisho

i think youd have to really hard push a dslr image to capture that much detail were just trying to keep up with the ccd imagers.

[theodog (Jeff)]

Nice one Steven.
This object is difficult to get detail in both the faint arms and the inner spiral.
Plenty of detail in that.
Well done.

[Tamtarn]

Agree with everyone. A great image Steven wonderful detail and nice extention to the faint outer arms.
Very nice

[renormalised (Carl)]

Very nice...especially the detail in the arms, and the background galaxies present in the pic.

[glenc (Glen)]

That is a fantastic image Steven.
Do you have any images of NGC 1549 and NGC 1553? They are only 12' apart.

[sjastro]

Originally Posted by glenc

That is a fantastic image Steven.
Do you have any images of NGC 1549 and NGC 1553? They are only 12' apart.

Thanks Glen.

I do in fact have an image. Never put it on my webpage as I was never satisfied with the image.

Here it is anyway.

http://users.westconnect.com.au/~sja...gc1549_53.html

Regards

Steven

[sjastro]

Thanks for the kind comments.

Clear skies to all.

Steven

[glenc (Glen)]

Thanks Steven, you are the first to post an image of those two galaxies that I know of.
James Dunlop saw NGC 1553 but thought that NGC 1549 was a star.
He wrote "A rather bright nebula [1553] about 1’ diameter, very faint at the margin, gradually bright to the centre: a small star north, and another south, both involved in the margin of the nebula. A group of very small stars [including 1549] north"

[sjastro]

Originally Posted by glenc

Thanks Steven, you are the first to post an image of those two galaxies that I know of.
James Dunlop saw NGC 1553 but thought that NGC 1549 was a star.
He wrote "A rather bright nebula [1553] about 1’ diameter, very faint at the margin, gradually bright to the centre: a small star north, and another south, both involved in the margin of the nebula. A group of very small stars [including 1549] north"

It's not surprising there are not too many images of this pair. Most ellipticals are bland objects and not worth imaging.

Regards

Steven

[winensky]

A lovely image. Great detail. You manage your DSLR beautifully.

[sjastro]

Originally Posted by winensky

A lovely image. Great detail. You manage your DSLR beautifully.

Thanks Matt.

I use a CCD (SBIG ST-10XME).

Regards

Steven